Over the year 1 Aug 09 - 31 Jul 10 (with comparisons to last year in brackets) there has been 2,078 visits (+10.01%)with 3,264 page views (+2.64%)coming from 80 different countries (77 last year), the bulk of which being from the UK, but still representing all of the continent and sub-continent regions and a vast array of legal systems:

Our overall increase in visitors comes from the international readership:

Continent ChangeMain ReasonsNorthern Europe -11.05% A UK drop, but an Ireland increaseNorthern America 45.29% Large increase for both USA and CanadaSouthern Asia 110.91% Significant increase for India and PakistanWestern Europe 63.08% Increase from Netherlands, Austria, France and SwitzerlandAustralia & NZ 27.63% A drop in New Zealand, but an increase in AustraliaSouthern Europe 13.16% A drop from Greece but increases for Spain, Portugal and ItalyEastern Asia 95.45% A drop from Japan but large increases elsewhere (Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, China and Mongolia)South America 59.09% A big increase for BrazilSouth-Eastern Asia 24.00% A drop from Malaysia but increases elsewhere (Thailand, Phillipines, Singapore, Indonesia and Cambodia)Eastern Europe -10.34% A drop in Romania, but an increase in Poland

Although UK traffic in general has gone down(-12.57%), the number of cities remains more or less the same at 140 (-2.78%), although I'm still suspicious that not every visit is recorded accurately as Analytics uses the visitor IP address, which may well be registered in England, even though the user is in Wales or Northern Ireland etc. The top 20 cities are:

Traffic Sources

Search engine arrivals are still overwhelmingly from Google, and from people using Windows, Internet Explorer, with a T1 or DSL connection. Unsurprisingly over 90% are java supported, yet with a variety of flash versions installed.

The top keywords are mainly names, however Digital Directions does review a number of conference presentations, blog posts by other authors and reports/papers etc from individuals, so that is not surprising. Other common terms are BILETA, Ardcalloch, GIKII, UKCLE, Second Life, LILAC etc, which pretty much represent the blog posts over the year.

Pages

The most popular postings viewed during the year are listed below. They were all, apart from number 8, written within the review period: as were last years (bar 2) which shows that blogs are treated more like news than archived information sources.